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Off the Shelf Mame Cabinet
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TechnoFreek wrote: »Well one will have to be enough given the cost!TechnoFreek wrote: »For nostalgia purposes I Could easily see my second cab being an authentic mortal kombat 2 cab!
Early stages of this disease has set in right before our eyes
LoGiE has an MK2 cab afaik, I've a Tekken 3 one which is the same type I think...
If you loved certain games, then a second cab becomes more & more a reality. I loved Ridge Racer in the arcades, after a while, Mitch sourced me an upright RR1 cab & that became my second one. I know for a fact I'm not finished either, I'd love an SF2 CE, & a shooter cab too.0 -
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Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 36018
All you need is a good front end. When you turn on the cab you'll see your list of games booted from the PC. It's all controllable with the arcade control panel.
Edit - ah I get what you mean about buttons, some cabs not having the full six button layout.
If you just want one cab and to have emulators on it then get one with the maximum amount of buttons alright.
If I were to fill a garage with cabs though, none of them would be running emulators!
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TechnoFreek wrote: »Yeah. Although would dedicated cabs be much use for mame purposes? I presume the cab would have to be adjusted to add extra buttons etc...as tekken for example has a 4 button layout (i think)
Might try mitch as well and see if he has anything on the go.
Yep my Tekken had a four or five button layout I think. It doesn't anymore
I drilled out the holes requires, & wired the buttons up to the jamma harness, very very easily done. 0 -
TechnoFreek wrote: »Yeah. Although would dedicated cabs be much use for mame purposes? I presume the cab would have to be adjusted to add extra buttons etc...as tekken for example has a 4 button layout (i think)
You can do a nice mame cab out of a dedicated one. If you choose wisely, you'll be all right, but if you do want buckets of games to be playable you'll probably need to do at least a bit of modding and choose your cab well. Plan this step in detail, it will make a big difference to the "professional" look and feel of your finished machine, but there are lots of ways to go about it.
I like going for a street fighter 2 layout on my cabs, two sticks and two sets of six buttons, as well as a 1p and a 2p start. I think it gives the most versatility in terms of the number of games you can play. I also like to add pinball flippers on the left and right sides of the cab, for the handful of working pinball games i have, but you could easily forget those if you wanted. I just like pinball
Also think about trackballs and spinners if you're into older games like centipede etc. Not an issue for me, but just thought I'd mention it. If you want them, you'll need to make sure you've got room on your panel and your interface supports them, if you don't you'll want to remove the games that your machine won't support.
If you get a decent keyboard encoder with a shifted keys function you don't have to worry too much about drilling the control panel to add dedicated admin buttons, you can just assign second functions to the standard ones instead to activate stuff like coin insert, tab, reset, dip switches, save slots, etc, which often preserves the look of things.
Also, some of the lads here have posted pics before of their candy cabs with hidden buttons in clever places like the recessed bolt holes under their control panels, behind the coin reject buttons, etc. This is a good solution, keeps the look of your cab intact, and needs very little drilling or modding work.
I personally have a 3-in-1 button on the front panel of my cab that has 3 buttons mounted in one standard 28mm hole. It handles loads of different things depending on what emulator is loaded. It's perfect for my setup, but is probably not ideal if you want to go with a dedicated cab and are trying to keep the look of it faithful.
Your control panel is one of the bits of the cab that takes a ton of planning. You have to think about a lot of stuff. What emulators will you be running what their input key menus are, and how customizable the inputs are, what frontend you will choose, and what the controls needed for it are, what interface hardware will you be using, whether you want dedicated admin buttons on the panel or prefer a cleaner layout.
Take your time, and get it right. I turned down a couple of cabs for my first build because they weren't suitable for what i wanted or would have been too much hassle to change, and i was glad i did when it was finished.0 -
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TechnoFreek wrote: »Thanks unky chop chop.
I'm actually also thinking about an atomiswave hd. They only come in one player but this could be replaced at layer date and made 2 player.
I really like the idea of the flat screen in these machines plus they are easier to rotate, supposedly.
Stevesi, can you provide a link for you how to install hyperspin video please? Thanks
If you're talking about the Atomiswave SD then no I wouldn't say the monitor is easy to rotate at all - apparently it's very easy to neck it since there's no frame around the monitor - so unless you've done many a rotate and had a helping hand you'd want to be careful. It's put me off rotating mine anyway. Probably an easy thing for Jeff to do though since he deals in cabs and is probably an expert at it, he'd also have plenty of replacements to hand just incase. If you were to get one from him and it was solely for playing vert games then get him to rotate it for you before it ships. Otherwise a cool cab.
I know ondafly and "pyong colour-blind yang" were able to rotate their NAC monitors but I think it has a monitor frame to make it that bit easier. Afaik anyway.0 -
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TechnoFreek wrote: »Thanks unky chop chop.
I'm actually also thinking about an atomiswave hd. They only come in one player but this could be replaced at layer date and made 2 player.
I really like the idea of the flat screen in these machines plus they are easier to rotate, supposedly.
Stevesi, can you provide a link for you how to install hyperspin video please? Thanks
Not sure what you mean by Hyperspin video exactly but head over to http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/ and check out the forum there. Loads of info on everything hyperspinny.
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@andrew
So I guess that's pyongys new name then
Hey pyongy, what number do you see in this image:
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